EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7946, 23 January 1906, Page 5

EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS.

VLADIMIR'S DAY. ANNIVERSARY "RED SUNDAY." GERMAN SOCIALISTS. WILL "KEEP IT UP." ORGANISING MEETINGS. BERLIN, January 21. The Socialist Party is organising meetings in the German cities for eo-dav to protest against the prevailing electoral systems in any of the Federal States, and also in memory of Vladimir's Day ("Red Sunday,") in St. Petersburg. A stern police warning has been issued in Berlin. It suggests the possiblity of serious disturbances. A DAY OF MOURNING. MAXIM GORKY. THE REVOLUTION NOT STAMPED OUT. Received January 22, 9.46 p.m. ST. PETESRBURG. Jan. 22. The Workmen's Socialist Revolutionary Societies in St. Petersburg have resolved to observe the anniversary of "Red Sunday" as one of general mourning, and advise no aggressive movement at present. Maxim Gorky, the celebrated novelist and social reformer; denies that the revoutionary movement is stamped out, and declares that it is advancing towards a deoisive victory. M. de Witte's provocative repres sive measures have conviuced the middle class that the proletariat are fighting for liberty. SOCIALISTS' MEETINGS PROHIBITED. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE DEMANDED. Received January 22, 10.50 p.m. BERLIN, January 22. Although Sooiailat meetings nave been prohibited at Hamburg, Leipsic and Dresden, and several other cities, the authorities have permitted 93 meetings at Berlin. These have been attended by over 50,000 people and resolutions were carried welcoming the revolutionary successes in Russia, and sympathising with the i victims of autocratic tyranny, and J oru test ing against the three olass Prussian electoral system, and demanding a universal, equal and secret suffrage, and condemning the reactionary Russian diet as a caricature of a reai and representative) assembly. Strong forces of cavalry, infantry and artillery are held ready to support a thousand police, but there has not been the slightest disturbance. The unofficial workmen's police easily controlled 5 their comrades, and claim a triumph for Socialist organisation. PRUSSIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM. FURTHER PROTESTS. THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. Received January 22,, 11.17 p.m. BERLTN, January 22. Several Reichstag deputies have protested at meetings against the injustice of the Prussian electoral system, which is praotioally disfrancising a million and three-quarters of the social democratic electors. Herr T. A. Rebel, a Sooialist member of the Reiobstag remarked that though the Socialists are social democrats there is no occasion at pre sent to transfer their agitation to the streets. The recent events in Russia must be regarded as the mene tekel (the handwriting on the wall) for the governing classes. The great social democratic demonstrations passed over quietly at Frankfurt, Hanover, Kiel, Cologne, Preslau, and at other towns.